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J. B. CLBAVELAND.

TOOL POR WIRINGFENES.

PatentedJune 16, 41896.

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' which this tool is designed.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

JOHN E. oLEAvELAND, or INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

TOOL FOR WlRlN-G FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,170, dated June 16, 1896.

Application iiled October 14, 1895.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, JOHN B. CLEAVELAND, a Y citizen of the United States,residing at Indian-l The objects of this invention are to provide a toolfor weaving the transverse wires in a wire fence which are made to connect the longitudinal wires of said fence and to provide a cheap and durable tool that can be used in very limited spaces and that will require less effort to twist the wires than the tools heretofore employed for similar work.

I accomplish the objects of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichl Figure I represents a wire fence, showing the transverse wires for the application of Fig. 2 is a`view in perspective of my improved tool in posi tion ready for use and showing the adjacent strands of the fence to which the transverse wire is being applied. Fig. 3 is a detail in end view of the tool and shows the strands of the fence in transverse section. Fig. 4 is a view in longitudinal section of my improved wire-weaving tool.

Similar letters refer to'like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

A represents the longitudinal fence-s trands, which may run parallel with each other and with the ground, or may wholly or in part be placed diagonally. B are transverse wires intersecting the longitudinal' strands and secured thereto by being twisted or wrapped around the said strands in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

C is my improved tool, which I will call a spider, because it weaves a web in a manner that suggests the insect of that name. This spider consists of a cup-like shell CQ having the integral bottom or head C2 and also having the central inside stem or core D, which may be cast integral with the shell G, or it maybe made separately and secured by serai No. 565,582. (No modem and the end of the wire is threaded through the slot c and made fast to the top longitudinal wire. The shell, with its wire coil contained therein, is then grasped by the hand of the operator and forced down till the spur c2 engages the next lower strand of the fence in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3. wire B, after passing ont through the slot c',

follows the groove ci and forms a friction contact therewith, whereby the tension on the wire can be regulated. When the spur c2 is caught under the longitudinal strand sought to be wrapped, the spider is given a rotary movement, which carries it and its wire around the said strand in the direction indicated by the darts in Fig. 2. As many wraps can be given as maybe desired and thc spider carried down to the next strand, weaving its web as it goes.

In order to secure a better handhold on the shell, the longitudinal slots d will be provided in the manner as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The compact form of my tool and the fact that it has only one spur or point of engagement with the horizontal strand of thefence enable me to operate between strands which are close together, and in angles and corners not accessible to other forms of tools for this work.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A tool for wiring fences, comprising the shell C having the slot c', spur c2, and the inclosed stem D, and adapted to receive the coiled extension B', which is inserted in the shell and fed through the slot in the manner v substantially as described and shown.

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bottom of said cupped shell having `a slot cured in L suitable manner to the head C2, 1o through which the end of the coiled Wire may substantially as described and specified.

be threaded, and said shell having a, circuin- In testimony whereof I a'i'iix my signature ferentizil spur7 substantially as described and in presence of two Witnesses. specified.

3. A tool for Wiring fences consisting` of the JOHN B. CLEAVELAND. shell C having the slots d, the hond (J2 int-e- Titncssesz gral with the shell and having the slot c', spul JOSEPH A. MINTURN, c2, and groove c3, and the inside stein D se- F. XV. VOERNER. 

